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title:  'Version 0.2 Released'
date:   2012-08-21 14:57:18
categories: news
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<p>We are happy to announce that version 0.2 of the Stratosphere System has been released. It has a lot of performance improvements as well as a bunch of exciting new features like:</p>
<ul>
<li>The new Sopremo Algebra Layer and the Meteor Scripting Language</li>
<li>The whole new tuple data model for the PACT API</li>
<li>Fault tolerance through local checkpoints</li>
<li>A ton of performance improvements on all layers</li>
<li>Support for plug-ins on the data flow channel layer</li>
<li>Many new library classes (for example new Input-/Output-Formats)</li>
</ul>
<p>For a complete list of new features, check out the <a href="https://stratosphere.eu/wiki/doku.php/wiki:changesrelease0.2">change log</a>.</p>